Posts by Sam F
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Let's talk about this grudging recognition of a formidable adversary despite, or perhaps even because of the threat they pose to moral and civilised society, you might have...
I fixed this with lots of useless decorative bits for you.
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From a friend:
Watch The Shining backwards and it becomes a redemptive tale: after a night in the cold and a period of mental instability, Jack Torrence and his family leave the scary hotel and he becomes a healthy novelist.
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Meanwhile, I thought Stewart was going to braid Nancy Pelosi's pubic hair with his tongue last time she was on.
You make a valid point, but strewth, ta muchly for that mental image...
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Politics + the uncanny = I lol'd heartily.
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I think I've got that at home, I can lend it to you if I find it. It was part of the Richard Bachman collection and also contains the Running Man (love that film!)
Odd coincidences - I was reading this collection on holiday a while back. The other two books in the volume are Roadwork , which IMO was the best of the lot, and Rage which Stephen King no longer wants in print because of its resonances with Columbine and so on.
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Jury's out on loathing, though.
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Didn't quite finish that post... perhaps it's unsettling because although the central conceit is a bit far-out and unexplained, and the future setting might otherwise lead you into pushing it away as a tale of a far-way fictional world gone wrong, you're actually confronted on screen with events which we see happening every day in the world we live in right now.
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Another unsettling film I saw recently (it was on the telly a couple of weeks ago) was Children of Men. Not exactly a classic horror film, but set in a world of horrors.
Philip Matthews (I think) noted in his Listener review for that week that the most unsettling thing about Children of Men is that all of the horrors seen there are real, just not all gathered in one place.
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Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy
Well, yeah definitely, but... Rubber Johnny?
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Also, the weighting of those poll results is absolutely no surprise - an inverted pyramid with the tiny minority of (relatively) sane responses crushed under tonnes of paranoid wingnutry.